• Vance clinic undergoing facility improvements

    The 71st Medical Group's main clinic and Mental Health facility is undergoing a number of infrastructure upgrades to improve the environment of care for patients.These upgrades will have an impact to customers due to temporary relocation of patient care areas, but the high level of customer service

  • Annual golf tourney raises $650 for CFC

    Team Vance's Annual Combined Federal Campaign Golf Tournament raised more than $650 toward the base's goal of $97,675.41.Col. Clark Quinn, Capt. Mike Knaeble, 1st Lt. Sam Schmidt and 1st Lt. Nathan Gray won the tournament which, was held at Meadowlake Golf Course, Enid, Oklahoma.Forty golfers vied

  • Chaplain corps take a "Leap of Faith"

    The Vance Chaplain Corps took a "Leap of Faith" with student pilots training at the Aerospace Physiology parachute landing fall training facility Oct. 10.Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Randall Groves, the 71st Flying Training Wing chaplain, and Tech. Sgt. Durrell Edwards, a chaplain assistant, met with a new

  • Vance flight simulators go HD

    Instead of flying in a computer-generated world reminiscent of a Windows 95 graphics reproduction, Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training students will take to the simulated blue skies in high definition beginning Oct 27.Vance is the first base to receive the new system called Virtual Image

  • Vance water lines flushed after total coliforms detected

    On Sept. 2 Bioenvironmental Engineering received three sample results that were positive for Total Coliforms in Vance Air Force Base's water system.These tests do not cover family housing, which is a separate water system.Total Coliforms are harmless organisms that naturally exist in almost any